Following Government approval, the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O’Brien, T.D., and the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (OPW), Patrick O’Donovan T.D., today published the Report of the Inter Departmental Group on National Coastal Change Management Strategy.

The Government also agreed today to the immediate establishment of the Interdepartmental Steering Group on Coastal Change.

Increases in sea levels and storm surge arising from climate change will result in increased coastal erosion and displacement of the inter-tidal zone over the coming years and decades. The impacts of coastal change will affect many sectors of our economy, including households, transport, agriculture, our environment, tourism and our cultural assets.

In response to the developing risks associated with climate change – including changing weather patterns and an estimated sea level rise of up to one metre by the year 2100 – the Government established the Inter Departmental Group on Managing Coastal Change Strategy.

The purpose of the Group was to scope out an approach for the development of an integrated whole of Government strategy for managing coastal change. The Report published today sets out the Group’s initial findings and recommendations to enable the State to assess risks and develop appropriate responses.

Read the full press release here.

National Costal Change Management Strategy Report